I had to dig out an old Pentium 4 Dell machine this weekend to work with some old hardware. 1 DIMM and a SCSI card had died in the 12 years it was powered off,

I had to dig out an old Pentium 4 Dell machine this weekend to work with some old hardware. 1 DIMM and a SCSI card had died in the 12 years it was powered off, but it worked just fine with 256MB of memory. Mostly as responsive as a modern machine, but you could tell when the 20 year old spinning drive had to chug a bit to load things. And I seem to still be able to navigate WinXP with no issues - no weather or ad widgets loading under my mouse cursor; it was actually a breath of fresh air. I'm not sure if that's nostalgia/familiarity or if it was really more useable. I've also heard non tech people complain about how clear it is that each Windows version is just a shabby coat of paint over the last version and they wish Microsoft would just stop, so I don't think it's just me. I have to imagine XP would fly on a current machine with multiple gigs of RAM and an SSD.